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- late 14c., from Old French zodiaque, from Latin zodiacus "zodiac," from Greek zodiakos (kyklos) "zodiac (circle)," literally "circle of little animals," from zodiaion, diminutive of zoion "animal" (from PIE root *gwei- "to live").
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Sep 14, 2020 · empyrean (n.)"empyreal," mid-14c. (as empyre), probably via Medieval Latin empyreus, from Greek empyros "fiery," from assimilated form of en (see en-(2)) + pyr "fire" (from PIE root *paewr-"fire"). As an adjective in English from early 15c. The etymological sense is "formed of pure fire or light."
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Bedeutung von empyrean: Himmelskörper; "empyreal," Mitte des...
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1530s, "end point of a race," of uncertain origin. It...
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c. 1200, from Old English æmettig, of persons, "at leisure,...
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The word derives from the Medieval Latin empyreus, an adaptation of the Ancient Greek empyros (ἔμπυρος), meaning "in or on the fire (pyr)". [1] In Christian religious cosmologies, the Empyrean was "the source of light" and where God and saved souls resided, [1] and in medieval Christianity, the Empyrean was the third heaven and beyond ...
The earliest known use of the word empyrean is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for empyrean is from before 1500, in Secreta Secretorum.
Origin: The concept of the empyrean originated in ancient Greek philosophy. The philosopher Plato, in his dialogue "Timaeus," described the empyrean as the outermost sphere of the cosmos, composed of fiery ether and containing the fixed stars.
The word is recorded from late Middle English (as an adjective, meaning belonging to or deriving from heaven), and comes via medieval Latin from Greek empurios, from en-‘in’ + pur ‘fire’ The noun dates from the mid 17th century.
empyrean, the heaven, in particular the highest part of heaven, thought by the ancients to be the realm of pure fire and by early Christians to be the abode of God and the angels. Source for information on empyrean, the: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable dictionary.
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empyrean in American English. (ˌempəˈriən, -pai-, emˈpɪriən, -ˈpairi-) noun. 1. the highest heaven, supposed by the ancients to contain the pure element of fire. 2. the visible heavens; the firmament. adjective.
